The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-09-02

TIE two large barns Of William Mics =
Sons at Hastings, MIMI, were struck BY
lightning the other night and burned TO the
ground. Twenty Norman horses perished
in the flames and 100 tons Of hay burned.
Total loss, $4,000
TIE Pacific Railroad Commission LETT
Portland, Ore, on the 22d. They will re-
sumo sessions In New York shortly. Up to
date the commission had taken q, 0oO pages
of testimony.
OLD LEVI ResENFELD's will was read on
the 2ad at Chicago. The will was 30 ar
ranged that the creditors Of Maurice Rosen
field would be unable to obtain anything.
TEE three eldest children Of the late A.
A. Talmage, manager Of the Wabash raul
road, have determined to contest bis WILL
Talmage left his property to his wife, the
stepmother OF the contestants.
KEv. ChAhLEs I. Goss, pss.or Of Evange
list Moody's old Chicago church and do
fender Of working girls, has been forced TO
resign because Of divisions in the church.
CAPTAIN ANDERSON and four sailors, COM
posing the crew Of the schooner Gessine,
were found the other morning clinRing to
the outer breakwater with seas constantly
washing over them. at Michigan City, Ind
The vessel had gone to pieces.
The aurora, the largest wooden vessel
on the great chain Of lakes, was launched
at Cleveland, o., recently. Her beam Is
AK feet wide, her length 80 feet and her
depth 261< feet. She 10 equipped with .
2,OO0 horsepower double cylinder engine.
GOVERNOR BARTLETT. Of California, was
said to be hopelessly suffering from stroke
Of paralysis on tho sd. He was elected to
the ONCE last November on the Democratic
ticket.
EIGHT Of the Bald Knobbers on trial 1t
Ozark, No., pleaded guilty on the 23d to
whipping various persons. Others also
pleaded guilty to acts Of lawlossness.
A PASSENGER train was derailed near Lin
coln, Ill, recently, ON the Peoria, Decatur
& Evansville railroad. No one was hurt.
On examination it was found that mis-
creants had removed the fish plates and
spikes.
Two thousand Quarrymen working near
Youngstown, O., struck the other day for
increased wages and semtmonthly pay
ments.
THE two-master Manistee wont ashore
uear Millers, Mich, recently. No trace Of
the crew had been found.
The largest comet that has appeared for
many years was visible on the northern
sky from points in Indiana on the night Of
the Oath.
Iowa Republicans, In convention at Des
Moines on the Ath, renominated Governor
William Larrabee. For Supreme Judge,
George s. Robinson; for Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, Henry SabiR. No in
dorsement for the Presidency was made
The completion Of the Manitoba road to
Fort Benton has ruined river traffic on tho
Upper Missouri The only river traffic that
will amount to any thing will be between
Bismarck and Sioux City with headquar-
tiers at Pierre, Oak.
The Toledo, Peoria & Western officials
have refunded the amount expended for
Niagara excursion tickets to persons In
Hancock County. Ill, who wore In the
Chatsworth wreck. No suits for damage
to person or effects have been commenced
by any survivors in Hancock County.
MCHENRY & Co., dealers In gas fixtures,
Cincinnati, have been caught for e., eco.
which they gave on q mortgage to Mitchell,
Vance & Co., of New York, who failed 70
Gently.
The annual meeting OF tho National Ed
itorial Association has finally been fixed for
Denver, Col, September Is.
The union seamen OF Chicago have made
q demand for s.. ~ per day.
GALEsBURG, ILL.,, is shaken up at the ap-
pearance Of a peculiar disease among
cattle. The cattle are taken i'll suddenly
and will stagger around for few moments
and then lay down and die
ALL the wires Of the Postal Telegraph
Company have been removed from the Chi
cago Board of Trade. The president Of the
board says the Postal Company was not
only defying the board by continuing to
furnish market quotations to bucket shops,
but was preparing to extend its business
of that class.
The schooner Clara, OF Manistee, was
driven ashore in Lake Erie recently and
her wreckage was strewn along the beach
for miles. Captain Olson, her master ard
owner, and one OF the sailors lost their
lives.
PROF 81. s. WHITNEY, Of the Excelsior
Academy, on tho shore Of Lake Minncton-
ka, Mimi, was drowned in ths lake tho
other afternoon. Three children were
playing on a raft which went to pieces, and
he swimming out to save them, became
entangled in the weeds and was drowned.
Two of the children were rescued alive, the
third was drowned.
GOVERNOR MARTIN, Of Kansas, has re-
voked his Quarantine proclaimed against
Illinois cattle, except in SO far as it applies
to Cook County. Cattle shipped from Cook
County will be held in quarantine at Kan
sas City ninety days.
TEXAS fever has broken out among the
cattle at Fleischman's distillery, River
side, near Cincinnati, and seven have died
and twenty more are sick with the disease.
The thirteenth annual convention Of the
National Conference Of Charities and Cor
rections opened at Boyd's Opera House,
Omaha, Neb., on the 25th.
Mrs. JOHN A. WIrTsR, who has been on
examination in Denver, Col, charged with
poisoning her husband, has been held in
$1,000 bonds to await the action Of the
grand jury.
ONE man was fatally and another badly
injured in Chicago recently by an explosion
of gas which had accumulated in tho base.
ment Of wholesale store.
A BATTLE took place between Kendall's
men and Colorow's braves on tho 18th, four
miles below Moeker. Several Indians wore
reported killed. Deputy Sheriff Ward was
killed and several more wounded.
Two men were horribly mangled by bong
run over by log carriage in mill at Che.
boygan, Mich, the other day.
THE SOUTH
The Virginia State Republican COMMITTEES
recently issued a lengthy address TO voters.
The address was in answer to that Of the
Democrats and was taken mp principally
with local questions, the principal being the
funding atfemnts OF tho Stafa administer.